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Send Denial
Anti-Spam protection for the most popular and widly used formbuilders and plugins. GDPR compliant.
The facts
- Rating
- 5★ from 1
- Active installs
- 300+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 12 Dec 2024
- Added
- Jan 2023
- Requires WP
- 6.0
- Tested up to
- WP 6.7.7
- Requires PHP
- 7.4
- Downloads
- 3,558
Our analysis
AI-assistedSend Denial is a WordPress plugin designed to protect your website's forms from spam submissions. It utilises honeypot techniques to prevent automated script spammers without disrupting the user experience, as there are no captchas or puzzles involved. The plugin is compliant with GDPR guidelines, ensuring that it does not call external APIs or databases.
Currently, Send Denial supports various popular form plugins, including Contact Form 7, WooCommerce, and Ninja Forms, with plans to extend support to additional plugins in the future. This plugin is suitable for website owners who want to enhance their form security without impacting user interaction.
Best for: Website owners looking for a simple solution to protect forms from spam.
What it does well
- ✓Utilises honeypot techniques for spam protection
- ✓No impact on user experience with no captchas
- ✓Compliant with GDPR guidelines
- ✓Supports multiple popular form plugins
- ✓Free to use with no premium version planned
Where it falls short
- •Limited feature information available
- •Future features are not guaranteed
Verdict
Send Denial offers a straightforward approach to form security without compromising user experience. It may be a good option for those seeking basic anti-spam protection.
From the developer
Julian Lang's own description of Send Denial, lightly tidied.
Send Denial – a spam sentinel
This plugin will enable honeypot and other anti-spam techniques (in future versions) to protect your business and mailbox from automated script spammers. In “basic” honeypot mode there will be zero impact on your users. they won’t see a captcha or puzzle to solve, they can just use your websites forms. Plug and play
This plugin will be compliant with GDPR guidelines as it won’t call external apis or databases at all. In future versions there might be a local database table (in your database) where failed submissions (from bots) will be stored so you will have total control over the data.
currently supported (protected) plugins include:
- Caldera Forms
- WPForms Lite
- CF7 (Contact Form 7)
- Ninja Forms (including ajax submissions)
- Formidable
- WooCommerce (registration, checkout, login)
- Elementor Forms (Pro)
- MC4WP
- Jetform Builder
- Ultimate Member (Registration Form)
- FormCraft Premium
planned support for the near future:
- bbPress
- Divi Forms
- Fluentform
- HTML Form
- Gravity Forms
- BuddyPress
- Easy Digital Downloads Checkout
- Toolset Forms
This plugin will support as many popular plugins as possible for free. There is no intent to sell “premium” anti spam protection in the future. You can help to support costly formbuilders or other paid plugins by donating a little amout to help fund the licenses for the development environment.
Tagged as
purpose
Anti-Spam
Security & Malware Protection
GDPR, Cookies & Compliance
Digital Downloads & Licensing
platform
Contact Form 7
quality
Security
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